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BOTTLE STOPPER.

` No. 567.394. Patented Sept. 8. 1896.

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EDWARD .THOMAS JENKINS,4 SR., OF BROOKLYN, NEVVYORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND BENJAMIN BLEIER, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 567,394, dated September 8, 1896. Application led May 23,1895.V Renewed February 18, 1896. Serial No. 579,803. V(No model.)

To all whom it may con-cern: Y y

Be it known that I, EDWARD THOMAS JEN- KINS, Sr., a citizen of the United States, re-' siding at Brooklyn," in the countyV of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in bottle-stoppers, the essential object of which 1o is to prevent the refilling of bottles after they have been once emptied. WVith many brands of reputable liquids it has heretofore been a custom of irresponsible persons after the originally-filled bottles have been emptied to refill them with spurious liquids that are palmed off for the genuine material under the name upon the bottles. 'My invention is designed to prevent this practice.

In carrying out my invention I employ a 2o glass cap connected to the bottle-mouth and adapted to beV corked and sealed air-tight at its end, a plug in the" mouth of the bottle, a hollow perforated conical guard within the glass cap, and a main ball and several auxiliaryballs within the conical guard and resting upon the plug. After theb'ottle is iilled the plug is placed inthe bottle-mouth, the conical guard and balls are placed over theplug, and the glass cap is connected and cemented in place', and sealed so as to be air-tight. Then the bottle is to be emptied, the air-tight seal is broken and the bottle turned upside down, when the balls will fall down in the conical guard and the plug come away from the bot- 3 5 tle-mouth, permitting the liquid to discharge through the perforations in the conical guard. The bottle cannot be refilled in an upsidedown position because the air cannot be got out, and when placed in a-vertical or horizontal position the weight of the balls within the conical guardforces the plug to its seat in the mouth of the bottle and eife ctually shuts off ingress thereto.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section showing my improvement. Eig. 2 is a cross-section at @c of Fig. 1, and Fig. is a section similar to AFig. l with the parts in a horizontal position. 1

The glass bottle a may be of any desired 5o form, and I provide the same with a rim a', that is preferably internally threaded. I employ a tapering cap b, preferably of glass, having a base exteriorly threaded and adapted to screw into the rim ct and to beiirmly connected thereto by an intervening layer of cement 2. The outer end or mouth of the cap b receives the cork 3 and is covered with seal ing-wax 4 in sealing the contents of the bottle to make the same air-tight. A plug c, of wood, rubber, or other suitable material, fits into 6o the mouth of the bottle. A conical guard d, having a flanged base and perforations 5, and preferably made of metal, lits within the cap b, the flanged base being clamped within the rim a' beneath, the base of the cap b, and 65 y within the saidfcone I place a large main ball e and several smallv auxiliary balls f. The balls are preferably of metal and the main ball of about the same diameter as the head of the plug and nearly filling the larger part 7o of the hollow conical guard, while the aux iliary balls f are much smaller. In putting the parts together after the bottle is filled with liquid the yplug c is placed in the mouth of the bottle, the conical guard d, with the balls 7 5 ef inclosed, is put over the plug c, theV cap b is screwed and cemented to place,"an`d the cork 3 and sealing 4 applied to close and seal the bottle air-tight. Then this sealing is broken and the bottle turned over the con- 8o tents are delivered through tlieperforated conical guard and the bottle emptied, Any futureeffort to refill the bottle whenpturned upside down would fail because of the body of air therein, and an effort to reiill it when 8 5 placed vertically or when turned on one side horizontally would also fail, because in said position the weight and pressure of the balls keep the plug to its seat, and .the only way the bottle can be refilled is by removing the 9o cap b by undoing the cemented joint 2, which,

as such joints are generally made, means the destruction of the bottle.

' l. The combination with abottle and a cap 95 adapted to be connected tothe bottle and to be closed or sealed air-tight, of a tapering plug for the mouth of the bottle, a hollow perforated conical guard located above the plug and having a iiange by which it is held to the bottle, a large ball nearly filling the larger part of the vhollow guard and several smaller IOO balls within the guard between the large ball a perforated cone d having a flanged base to and the small end of the guard, whereby the Vbeclanlped and secured between the bottle small balls act upon the large ball to assist the same in keeping the plug to its seat and also in holdin g the ball Centrally over the plu g, substantially as specified.

2'. The. combination with they bottle d, hav- V ing an internally-threaded. .ri-1n, a', of a taper ing cap having an eXteriorly-threaded base to be connected and cemented to the said rim a', and adapted for a cork and air-tight sealing, a tapering plug c for the mouth of the bottle,

and base of the cap, a large ball e and auxiliary balls f within the cone and acting by their Weight to keep the plug to its seat, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me thisV 18th day of May, A. D. 1895.

EDWARD THOMAS JENKINS, SR. WILQSSeSI GEO. T. PINCKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL. 

